"There are a lot of candidates who get completely run down, and they have to take a week off - and that's the kiss of death, " says Richard Ben Cramer, author of What it Takes: The Way to the White House.
Roberto Martinez's Wigan, who have endured a difficult week off the pitch, never got going and were well beaten.
Industry guidelines say patients should have a two-week cooling off period after booking procedures and they ban the use of time-limited financial inducements.
This is the first week of the NFL season where teams have a bye (Indianapolis and Pittsburgh have the week off).
During the 10 days that we're on we never know when we're going to work it can be anytime night or day so during that period of time our social life can be non-existent but it does have the advantage of giving us a week off every 3 weeks which means we can go away.
My five-year-old son and I have fast food perhaps twice a week but we also get off our butts and exercise.
Personally, I would have fallen off the wagon with a huge crash last week and whooped it up on a mechanical bull nicknamed Tipper -- and if that didn't win Florida, forget about it.
While the economic news was definitely not positive, it seems that at least the lack of negativity was enough to prompt traders to determine that the sell-off to start the week may have been a bit overdone.
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In small-cap tech land, in particular, there have been a flurry of merger and acquisition activity to kick off the week.
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Certainly broad market conditions have weighed heavily amid the sell-off over the past week and a half.
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The forward will have surgery this week, damaging news for a team that has missed his play off the bench.
The week starts off with a bang on Monday as we have the personal income and savings numbers, pending home sales, and the Dallas Fed Manufacturing Survey.
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Do they not have the time? (Laughter.) They just had a week off. (Laughter.) Is it inconvenient?
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Today and last week, however, fears about both mounting costs and competition have prompted a sell off.
European bond yields have also backed off just a bit Friday, from the higher levels seen earlier this week.
Walters will have surgery later this week to replace a faulty heart valve, and will take the summer off from The View talk show to recuperate.
But Westwood insisted it never crossed his mind to skip the event in Scotland, despite the fact a fortnight off - he defends the Portugal Masters next week - would have seen him automatically dethrone Woods.
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When the committee handed down its verdict last week, Gingrich got off with a reprimand, not the censure that would have required him to step down as Speaker.
The Rhinos will now have next week off and then have their choice of opponents for their qualifying semi-final in a fortnight's time.
"I didn't have the easiest draw so it's been a good week all around and hopefully I can finish it off on Sunday, " added the Scot.
Twitter has been taking a lot of flack this week by users who have accused the social media service of manually taking WikiLeaks off the Twitter Trends list.
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The fact that the wheels have come off the government's fuel tax policies so disastrously this week emphasises the need for a fairer, less crude method of taxing motorists.
And this week, Verizon kicked off a roundelay of protest when it announced that existing customers would have to give up their unlimited plans when they upgraded to the new 4g LTE network.
We have to improve governance, a lot of which will be discussed this week at the Kabul conference, which builds off of a whole host of events around making sure that we sustain our progress in Afghanistan.
This week's slate of offerings might have a slightly easier go of it after four companies managed to pull off debuts in late June.
All have been canceled, but he went spear fishing eight miles off the coast of Pensacola last week and caught a 28-pound red snapper some 80 feet below the surface.
After beating relegation rivals Leeds, then producing a sensational second-half performance to see off Quins 33-18 at Kingston Park a week ago, Tait's men have moved seven points clear of danger with seven games left.
The New Jersey race has been an even bigger disappointment as race organizers no longer have a contract with Formula One and may be left off of the 2013 schedule, which will be finalized this week.
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